Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-10
THE PROBATE JUDGES.

DOings at Their Meeting in Hartford
 Yesterday About Seventy-Ffve
 Judges Attend Some KnOtty Cases
 Widows Wrongs as o DOwer.
 About seventy-five Probate court judges attended the annual session in Hartford yes turday of their State association. President Bancroft, of Warehouse Point. presided. Many of the members walked up to the scribe's desk and paid their dues. The dues of the various older members were remitted, there being plus of money in the treas ury The annual election resulted as fol- lows:
 President-Judge S. T. Holbrook, of Norwich
 First Vice President-Judge Robert H. Russell, of
 Second Vice President-Judge wm. L. Loomis of Sufield.
 of Rockville.
 Ex-Judge White, of Hartford, offered the following resolutions:
 Resolved, That in the opinion of this assembly it people of this State that there should be any further divisions of any probate district; that 1t he sa Ge distTcRS R Father ' than to further dsnte grate them.
 Resolved, That copy hereof be sent to the com rnittee on new towns and probate districts of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut now in session.
 Judge White said the division of probate
  there were to be any change at all in the present system it should be toward consoli- dating rather than disintegrating them. There is now before the House petition to divide district.
 The resolution was discussed and lost by unanimous vote.
 Judge Perry read will which had come to him in his official capacity. It had been drawn by testator himself about an hour before his death. The uncertainty of Judge Perry's mind was as to the intent of the testator in the two sections of the will In the first he bequeathed all his personal prop erty and in the second he gave the rest and residue of all his personal estate.
 Judge Sherwood, of Westport, said the only way to do was to construe the will in the most reasonable manner possible and let objecting parties fight over it.
 Judge Bancroft propounded this question: Does the remarriage of 8 widow, before the settlement of an estate, or at any time, debar her from her right of dover in the estate of her husband; that is, can widow have two or three dowersa
 Judge Beardsley thought widow could marry again before the estate of her deceased husband was settled, and yet her dover right would not be affected.
 It was Judge Perry's opinion that some re- striction ought to be placed upon owners of real estate against depriving their widows of their dover. Previous to the act of 1877 a man could change his real estate before his death into personal property, and will his widow a small portion of such personal property and deprive her of her dower If the widow finds fault at the small amount she receives of the property what can she do? If she sues for her dover and the real estate has been reduced to & meagre sum she gets but one-thlrd of that estate, and even then only for fife. There ought to be some restriction provided so that a man may not convert his property so that his widow shall be left with little or nothing.
 Other interesting questions were raised and discussed. It was voted to held the next meeting in Bridgeport and that at the next meeting one or two interesting papers pre- pared in the meantime for the occasion be read. Judges Leomis and Beardsley were appointad